Burroughs B1900 series
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The Burroughs B1900 series was a line of mainframe computers introduced in the 1960s, known for their stack-based architecture and use in business and scientific data processing.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Burroughs B1900 series canonical | 1 |
| Burroughs B1910 | 1 |
| Burroughs B1920 | 1 |
| Burroughs B1930 | 1 |
| Burroughs B1940 | 1 |
| Burroughs B1955 | 1 |
| Burroughs B1965 | 1 |
| Burroughs B1975 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2978852 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burroughs B1900 series Context triple: [Burroughs Corporation, notableProductLine, Burroughs B1900 series]
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A.
Bentley Blower
The Bentley Blower is a famous late-1920s British racing car, distinguished by its supercharged engine and prominent role in pre-war motorsport and Bentley’s racing heritage.
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B.
Bortus
Bortus is a stoic, duty-bound Moclan officer serving as second-in-command aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy series "The Orville."
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C.
Badgerline
Badgerline was a major British bus operator that emerged from the privatization of the National Bus Company and later became a core part of the transport group FirstGroup.
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D.
Brinkman
Brinkman is a surname of Germanic origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Briggs
Briggs is a surname most prominently associated with Lance Briggs, a former NFL linebacker best known for his career with the Chicago Bears.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burroughs B1900 series Target entity description: The Burroughs B1900 series was a line of mainframe computers introduced in the 1960s, known for their stack-based architecture and use in business and scientific data processing.
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A.
Bentley Blower
The Bentley Blower is a famous late-1920s British racing car, distinguished by its supercharged engine and prominent role in pre-war motorsport and Bentley’s racing heritage.
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B.
Bortus
Bortus is a stoic, duty-bound Moclan officer serving as second-in-command aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy series "The Orville."
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C.
Badgerline
Badgerline was a major British bus operator that emerged from the privatization of the National Bus Company and later became a core part of the transport group FirstGroup.
-
D.
Brinkman
Brinkman is a surname of Germanic origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Briggs
Briggs is a surname most prominently associated with Lance Briggs, a former NFL linebacker best known for his career with the Chicago Bears.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mainframe computer series ⓘ |
| architectureType | stack-based architecture ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Burroughs large systems
ⓘ
surface form:
Burroughs large systems family
|
| commercialStatus | discontinued ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cpuOrganization | microprogrammed control ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
binary
ⓘ
decimal ⓘ |
| designedBy | Burroughs Corporation engineers ⓘ |
| designedFor | high-level language execution ⓘ |
| hasModel |
Burroughs B1900 series
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Burroughs B1910
Burroughs B1900 series self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Burroughs B1920
Burroughs B1900 series self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Burroughs B1930
Burroughs B1900 series self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Burroughs B1940
Burroughs B1900 series self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Burroughs B1955
Burroughs B1900 series self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Burroughs B1965
Burroughs B1900 series self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Burroughs B1975
|
| hasPeripheralSupport |
card readers
ⓘ
disk storage units ⓘ line printers ⓘ magnetic tape drives ⓘ |
| influenced | Burroughs A series architecture ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
business data processing
ⓘ
scientific data processing ⓘ |
| introducedInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Burroughs Corporation ⓘ |
| marketedAs | medium-scale mainframe line ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
descriptor-based security and protection
ⓘ
hardware support for high-level languages ⓘ stack-oriented instruction set ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily | MCP ⓘ |
| predecessor | Burroughs B5000 series ⓘ |
| successor | Burroughs A series ⓘ |
| supports |
ALGOL
ⓘ
COBOL ⓘ Fortran ⓘ
surface form:
FORTRAN
RPG ⓘ batch processing ⓘ multi-programming ⓘ time-sharing ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
commercial data centers
ⓘ
scientific computing installations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
file processing
ⓘ
scientific computation ⓘ transaction processing ⓘ |
| uses |
descriptor-based memory management
ⓘ
stack-based evaluation of expressions ⓘ |
| wordLength | 48-bit ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Burroughs B1900 series Description of subject: The Burroughs B1900 series was a line of mainframe computers introduced in the 1960s, known for their stack-based architecture and use in business and scientific data processing.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Burroughs B1910
this entity surface form:
Burroughs B1920
this entity surface form:
Burroughs B1930
this entity surface form:
Burroughs B1940
this entity surface form:
Burroughs B1955
this entity surface form:
Burroughs B1965
this entity surface form:
Burroughs B1975